#web
- Firefox 84 Ships as the Last Browser to Say Goodbye to Flash
Mozilla's Firefox 84 drops native Apple Silicon support and wider WebRender rollout, while quietly becoming the final Firefox release to carry Flash support before its industry-wide death.
- The Day Your Google Login Just... Stopped Working
A 45-minute Google Cloud authentication failure on December 14 knocked out YouTube, Gmail, and sign-ins for third-party apps like Discord.
- Red Ventures Officially Owns CNET Now, and That's a Big Deal
Red Ventures closed its roughly $500 million purchase of CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS, taking over CNET, GameSpot, Metacritic, TVGuide.com, and Chowhound.
- Firefox 80 Ships With the Option to Make Its PDF Viewer Your System Default
Firefox 80 lets its built-in PDF reader take over as the OS default, alongside a blocklist refresh and WebRTC congestion-control gains.
- WebAssembly Is Quietly Becoming a Big Deal
Figma, Autodesk, and the WASI standard are turning Wasm from a curiosity into a serious complement to JavaScript.
- Streaming Just Overtook Cable in America, and It Only Took a Pandemic
New reports show more Americans now watch streaming TV than traditional cable, a milestone pulled forward by months of lockdown.
- Stop Hate for Profit: The Facebook Ad Boycott Starts Today
The Stop Hate for Profit campaign kicks off July 1, with hundreds of advertisers pausing Facebook and Instagram spend over the platform's handling of hate speech.
- Twitter's Usage Boom Meets an Ad Slowdown
Twitter's Q1 2020 mDAU jumped 24% YoY, but revenue rose just 3% as COVID-19 hit ad spending late in the quarter.
- Teams and Meet Scramble to Catch Zoom's Lockdown Boom
Microsoft Teams and Google Meet report huge usage spikes as they race Zoom for the suddenly essential video-call market.